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Biomarker in urine could be the first to reveal early-stage Alzheimer’s disease

November 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Conn Hastings, science writer Image: BlurryMe/Shutterstock.com Alzheimer’s disease can remain undetected until it is too late to treat. Large-scale screening programs [...]

Former Amazon HR leader Kanika Mehra joins Frontiers

November 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

Research publisher Frontiers appoints Kanika Suri Mehra as chief people officer (CPO). Kanika will be responsible for all aspects of the human resources strategy, including [...]

How you help a child go to sleep is related to their behavioral development, finds new study

November 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Image: yamasan0708/Shutterstock.com A group of international researchers examined parental methods to help toddlers sleep [...]

Balancing blood sugar: article collections on Diabetes

November 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

To mark World Diabetes Week, we have gathered our top article collections on Diabetes. With collective views of over 1.1 million, researchers explored topics spanning from [...]

Frontiers ebook releases: November 2022

November 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

Download the top ebook releases from this month, including the special issues on recent developments in bioregenerative life-support systems for crewed missions to the moon, [...]

60% of home ‘compostable’ plastic doesn’t fully break down, ending up in our soil

November 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Image: Citizen scientist image from www.bigcompostexperiment.org.uk In a UK-wide study, researchers found that 60% of [...]

WWII shipwreck has leaked many pollutants into the sea, changing the ocean floor around it

October 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Torn deck plating of the V 1302 John Mahn that was damaged by the bomb that hit amidships. Image: Flanders Marine [...]

Top ebook releases on breast cancer

October 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we gathered the top ebooks finding solutions to this devastating disease. Explore the research advances made by Frontiers [...]

New walking robot design could revolutionize how we build things in space

October 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Researchers have designed a state-of-the-art walking robot that could revolutionize large construction [...]

Rodents are reservoirs for life-threatening disease, finds new study

September 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Tania Fitzgeorge-balfour, science writer Image: Vicky Outen/Shutterstock.com Fungal diseases in the human population are on the rise, so it is important for health [...]

Trash talk: article collections on where our waste ends up

September 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

What happens to our trash when we throw it away? How much actually gets recycled? We have gathered our top article collections on waste management. With collective views of [...]

Frontiers ebook releases: September 2022

September 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

Download the top ebook releases from this month, including the special issues on recent developments in food spoilage and shelf life, the psychological and physiological [...]

41% of teenagers can’t tell the difference between true and fake online health messages

August 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, science writer Image: Shutterstock.com A new study has found that teenagers have a hard time discerning between fake and true health messages. Only 48% [...]

Humans have totally altered small mammal communities in just a few centuries

August 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, science writer Image: Paul Abrahams/Shutterstock.com Researchers have found that small mammal communities today are fundamentally different from even a [...]

Back to school: article collections to get you ready for the new academic year

August 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

As the new academic year begins, we have gathered our top article collections on education. With collective views of over 2.9 million, researchers explored topics spanning [...]

Frontiers ebook releases: August 2022

August 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

Download the top ebook releases from this month, including the special issues on the high risk of Covid-19 related complications in people with diabetes, investigating the [...]

Traces of 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill still detectable in 2020

August 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

By K.E.D. Coan, science writer Image: Breck P. Kent/Shutterstock.com Small amounts of highly weathered oil residues from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster were still [...]

Worrying finding in California’s multi-billion-dollar climate initiative reveals problem with using forests to offset CO2 emissions

August 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Image: Zack Frank/Shutterstock.com Researchers have found that California’s forest carbon buffer pool, designed to ensure the [...]

Heat wave: article collections on the global impact of rising temperatures

July 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

As the temperature rises this summer, we have gathered our top article collections on how heat effects us and the planet. With collective views of over 1 million, researchers [...]

Frontiers ebook releases: July 2022

July 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Download the top ebook releases from this month, including the special issues on achievements in earthquake forecasting, progress of molds and yeasts in fermented food [...]

Verbal insults trigger a ‘mini slap to the face’, finds new research

July 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Image: Ken stocker/Shutterstock.com Hearing insults is like receiving a “mini slap in the face”, regardless of the precise [...]

Is declaring a climate emergency enough to stop the climate crisis? What we can learn from the Covid-19 pandemic

July 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Jordi Mazon, David Pino, and Mireia Vinyoles Image: Piyaset/Shutterstock.com Dr. Jordi Mazon is professor of meteorology at the Department of physics in the Technical [...]

Rats can learn to navigate by watching their friends, helping us learn more about our own ‘internal GPS’

July 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer Image credit: Jesus Cobaleda/Shutterstock.com Researchers are one step closer to understanding the ‘internal GPS’ of [...]

Zapping our tastebuds can help reduce our salt intake

July 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Peter Rejcek, science writer Image: YAKOBCHUK VIACHESLAV/Shutterstock.com Most people consume too much salt in their diet, leading to high blood pressure and other health [...]

Dr Deborah Nadal: Why a rigid rabies elimination strategy can struggle to take hold in a world of local complexities

June 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

Dr Deborah Nadal. Image: Rebecca Rodrigues Dr Deborah Nadal is an affiliate researcher at the University of Glasgow, where she works on rabies-related projects, and [...]

Pride Month 2022: Article collections on health and wellbeing in the LGBTQIA+ community

June 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

Pride month 2022's theme is celebrating 50 years of Pride with a focus on acknowledging the many positive achievements of the LGBT+ movement. We are proud to showcase the top closed and open article collections on improving the health and wellbeing of LGBT+ individuals. Researchers explored topics spanning from transgender pain and queer aging to HIV prevention and sexual health in non-binary adolescents. [...]

Frontiers ebook releases: June 2022

June 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

Download the top ebook releases from this month, including special issues on new alternatives to combat bacterial infections, challenges and solutions to LGBT+ inclusion in schools, the response of seagrass to environmental changes, understanding the roles of glia and circulating leukocytes in neurodegenerative diseases, the effects of achievement emotions on classic cognitive processes of learning and many more! All ebooks are free to download, share and distribute. [...]

Investing only 1% of global GDP into green recovery would immediately cut emissions by up to 8.5%

June 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

Investing only 1% of global GDP into green recovery would immediately cut emissions by up to 8.5%, finds new study in Frontiers in Climate [...]

New study finds 19th century wooden shipwrecks to be thriving habitats for deep-sea microbiomes

June 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

New study in Frontiers in Marine Science finds 19th century wooden shipwrecks to be thriving habitats for deep-sea microbiomes [...]

Medicinal cannabis shown to reduce pain and need for opiate painkillers among cancer patients

May 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

In a new Frontiers in Pain Research study, medicinal cannabis is shown to reduce pain and need for opiate painkillers among cancer patients [...]

Climate crisis is driving cousins of The Lion King character to local extinction

May 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Climate crisis is driving cousins of The Lion King character to local extinction, finds new study published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution [...]

Frontiers appoints Dr Julia Kostova to lead its US strategy

May 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

Frontiers, the 3rd most-cited research publisher, appoints Dr Julia Kostova as director of publishing development to lead the editorial strategy for the U.S. market . [...]

Restrictions lifted: Research Topics on enhancing your immune system

May 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

As the Covid-19 restrictions ease and the world opens back up this summer, we have gathered our top article collections on understanding and enhancing your immune system. With collective views of over 2.1 million, researchers explored wellbeing and sustainability topics spanning from shaping the human immune system and gut microbiome to oral immunity and how the environment affects physiology. [...]

Frontiers ebook releases: May 2022

May 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

Download the top ebook releases from this month, including special issues on the behavioral consequences of confinement due to Covid-19, the potential of various microbes to enhance plant productivity, innovative applications of heart rate variability, the use of zebrafish to explore human clinical problems, sustainable nitrogen management in crop plants and many more! All ebooks are free to download, share and distribute. [...]

Joseph M Sussman 2021 Prize Winners announced

May 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

Image: Shutterstock Frontiers in Built Environment is delighted to reveal the winners of the fourth Joseph M Sussman Prize celebrating the best articles published in [...]

Discovery in the brains of army veterans with chronic pain could pave way for personalized treatments

May 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

Discovery in Frontiers in Pain Research in the brains of army veterans with chronic pain could pave way for personalized treatments [...]

A combination of three simple treatments may reduce invasive cancer risk by 61% among adults aged 70+

April 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

A combination of vitamin D, omega 3, and exercise may reduce invasive cancer risk by 61% among adults aged 70+, finds new study in Frontiers in Aging [...]

We are more satisfied with life as we age, thanks to this neurochemical

April 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

We are more satisfied with life as we age, thanks to this neurochemical, study published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience [...]

The answer to keeping moose populations healthy? Wolves

April 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

The answer to keeping moose populations healthy? Wolves, finds a new study in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution [...]

Food behaviors changed a lot during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our study reveals what happened

April 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

Food behaviors changed a lot during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our study in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems reveals what happened [...]

Frontiers ebook releases: April 2022

April 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

Download the top ebook releases from this month, including special issues on the novel roles of platelets in health and disease, artificial intelligence applications in specialty crops, the impact of Covid on food and nutrition, highlights from the first year of Frontiers in Conservation Science, the effects of music on cognition and many more! All ebooks are free to download, share and distribute. [...]

Research Topics for healthy lives on a healthy planet

April 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

Frontiers article collections are at the center of our mission to find solutions for healthy lives on a healthy planet. With collective views of over 4.3 million, researchers explored wellbeing and sustainability topics spanning from yoga for mental health and food security through Smart Foods to protecting our oceans and negative emission technology. [...]

Frontiers announces first journal acquisition: Oncology Reviews

April 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

The open-access publisher Frontiers has acquired the journal Oncology Reviews from PAGEPress. The acquisition marks a significant milestone for Frontiers. It is the first [...]

Most read articles of February 2022: Does life really flash before our eyes before death?

March 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

By Colm Gorey, Frontiers Science Communications Manager Image: Shutterstock.com Each month, Frontiers shines a spotlight on some of the leading research across a wide range [...]

Extreme heat harms forest-dwelling bird chicks more than city ones

March 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

Extreme heat harms forest-dwelling bird chicks more than city ones, finds a new study in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution [...]

Break the Bias: Research Topics celebrating the findings of female scientists

March 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

To celebrate Women's History Month and International Women's Day, we are highlighting the top Research Topics from women in science. Break the gender bias in research by reading the findings of these incredible female scientists. With collective views of almost half a million, researchers explored topics spanning from signal processing and infectious disease to materials and gynecological oncology. [...]

Top ebook releases from female scientists

March 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

In honor of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, we gathered the top ebooks released in the past year by female editorial teams. Explore the research advances made by these incredible women, including special issues on the effects of ice loss on marine biodiversity, the educational response to Covid-19, enhancing natural regeneration to restore landscapes, recent discoveries in molecular mechanisms in chronic kidney disease, new perspectives on canine intervertebral disc disease and many more! [...]